Author: SportsCardRadio

Former NFL player Evan Mathis has been accused of trimming sports cards.  News of the scandal broke on the Blowout Forum website.  Mathis is accused of selling trimmed cards through eBay consignors including: >COMC eBay Account>Probstein123 eBay Account>PWCC (Kicked off eBay) Most card trimmers use PWCC, Probstein and COMC to sell their questionable inventory. One…

Sports Card Radio recently obtained an anonymous letter from a believed PSA insider. Any pictures or links were added only for context, and were not included in the original document.  ********************* Live from Santa Ana. Every grader that works for a TPG (third party grader) signs a Non Disclosure Agreement. Every TPG operates like a…

Buyer beware as another veteran sports card dealer has been exposed for selling trimmed cards.  A post on the Blowout Forum accuses RBI Sports Inc owner Rod Iman of buying & selling cards that have been trimmed.  Evidence of card altering was provided by the same forum user, 3124508 on COMC, who has been at…

Another card trimmer has been exposed on the Blowout Forum, this time it’s Metro Sports owner Brandon Taing. Forum user 3124508 on COMC provided evidence of several cards believed to be trimmed and showed PSA submission data that can link the cards back to Taing.  The same technique has been used to expose card trimmers…

Update: Burge implicated in the Probstein shill bidding scam. – LINK HERE When it comes to being a sports card scammer, Kevin Burge can do it all.  The Mooresville, North Carolina dealer has been accused of forging autographs, faking patch cards, and trimming cards as far back as 2003.  In addition to the card doctoring,…

The promotional offers from Leaf Trading Cards during The National Sports Collectors Convention may not be what they seem.  At the 2018 show in Cleveland, Leaf employee Joe Clemons CLEANED UP when he got at least 43 of 120 serial numbered 1/1 cards that were advertised as a promotion to collectors.  Update: A second Leaf…

VIEW ACTIVE CASES HERE FAKE THREATS Mark Sapira.k.a “Hands Shaking”Ex-Topps EmployeeCase Details SOLVED 2013 Topps employee Mark Sapir sent a message to Sports Card Radio that read: “If I ever see you say anything negative about this company (Topps), especially on Twitter, I’ll cut you off for good.” A few months later this guy came…

You know it’s bad when there is an entire Instagram account set up to expose your scams.  The IG account appeared after a 100+ page Blowout Forum thread called out sports card loser Eric Bitz of BuyNiceCards.com  In the thread, a “three-way” deal that went bad between Bitz and two other card fondlers was discussed. …

Brian Deer boasted that in the early 2000’s he was making six figures in cash selling baseball cards.  “I didn’t appreciate the money because frankly it had been so easy to make,” Deer wrote in a 2014 social media post. Brian Deer To make some of that money, Deer has been scamming collectors by selling…

We are SICK of having to write about another pair of industry scumbags. But put away your plastic slabs for a second and get to know this duo. In early 2019, Bill Sliheet and Nate Nichols from Superior Sports Investments (SSI) were called out for having trimmed cards for sale. Bill Sliheet Initially, it wasn’t…

Former Beckett Grading Services (BGS) and current Leaf Trading Cards employee Joe Clemons appears to have a statistically impossible rate at getting BGS 10’s & ‘Black Labels.’  Graphic: Blowout Forum Blowout Forum user Kyaa lays out the shocking details in this thread. Here are just one of many SHOCKING BGS submissions. Have you ever got…

From the company that brought you Dak Prescott Auto-Penned autograph cards… Oh, and a laundry list of other mistakes over the last decade …. it should come to no one’s surprise. Panini America Luka Doncic Autographs are fake. Luka’s signature on his Panini America cards started changing over the course of the 2018-19 NBA Basketball…

You probably don’t know who Gary “Scissor Hands” Moser is. But as far back as 2002, the New York area dealer has been accused of altering, trimming, and cleaning vintage trading cards. His card doctoring is so vast that it’s hard to keep up with all his exploits over the years.   Starting on page…

2025 UPDATE: Tormollan scams have continue for many years.  He has been selling numerous fake autographs via his eBay account clearblueconsignment.  In December 2025 he changed his eBay name to: dcsportsconsignment Steven Tormollan Original 2019 Article Another day, another kill shot by Blowout Forum user 3124508 on COMC. This time known sports card trimmer Steven Tormollan…

The same Blowout Forum user that brought you the Heroes of Sport scam, is back with another KNOCK OUT punch to hobby trimming heavyweight Robert Block. With details this EXPLOSIVE, it might RATTLE the locks off a vault or two near Texas or Oregon. Developing is a SEVEN figure card trimming scam by Robert Block. …

Leaf Trading Cards owner Brian Gray has jumped into the podcast fray. Here are thoughts on his first episode and where you can listen. Redemption Cards This featured his weakest arguments and underscored the fact that redemption cards are largely a Ponzi scheme for card companies. My favorite part was when he “urged” card manufactures…

Colin and Ryan have sat around for years watching grown men show off trimmed, fake and altered PSA or BGS slabs on social media channels. Grown men bragging about having a picture of another grown man.  For some reason in the sports card industry these posts are seen as a status symbol. You guys look…

Fitting that the very first card PSA ever graded was trimmed and they didn’t catch it.  Here are just some of the fake, trimmed or altered cards that exist in real PSA or BGS holders. Except for the Vegas Dave card that PSA claims is a fake holder, all of these mistakes could have been…